goalie13 Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 If memory serves correct, this sounds like a bigger version of their last ban. Russian athletes can compete if they can prove they are clean, just not under the Russian flag. Quote LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Russia was slapped Monday with a four-year ban from international sports events, including next summer's Tokyo Olympics, over a longstanding doping scandal, although its athletes will still be able to compete if they can show they are clean competitors. The ruling by the World Anti-Doping Agency's executive committee means that Russia's flag, name and anthem will not appear at the Tokyo Games, and the country also could be stripped of hosting world championships in Olympic sports. The sanctions are the harshest punishment yet for Russian state authorities who were accused of tampering with a Moscow laboratory database. Russia's anti-doping agency can appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport within 21 days — an action it has signalled it would take. Russian athletes will be allowed to compete in major events only if they are not implicated in positive doping tests or if their data was not manipulated, according to the WADA ruling. For soccer's 2022 World Cup, WADA said the Russian team will play under its name in the qualifying program in Europe. If it qualifies for Qatar, the name will have be changed to something neutral that likely would not include the word “Russia.” Legal fallout from the WADA ruling seems sure to dominate preparations for the Tokyo Olympics, which open on July 24. Evidence shows that Russian authorities tampered with a Moscow laboratory database to hide hundreds of potential doping cases and falsely shift the blame onto whistleblowers, WADA investigators and the International Olympic Committee said last month. “Flagrant manipulation” of the Moscow lab data was “an insult to the sporting movement worldwide,” the IOC said last month. WADA's inability to fully expel Russia from the Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Beijing Winter Games frustrated the doping watchdog's vice-president. “I’m not happy with the decision we made today. But this is as far as we could go," said Linda Helleland, a Norwegian lawmaker who serves on WADA executive committee and has long pushed for a tougher line against Russia. “This is the biggest sports scandal the world has ever seen. I would expect now a full admission from the Russians and for them to apologize on all the pain all the athletes and sports fans have experienced.” Handing over a clean database to WADA was a key requirement for Russia to help bring closure to a scandal that has tainted the Olympics over the last decade. Although the IOC has called for the strongest possible sanctions, it wants those sanctions directed at Russian state authorities rather than athletes or Olympic officials. That position was opposed by most of WADA’s athlete commission. It wanted the kind of blanket ban Russia avoided for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games after a state-run doping program was exposed by media and WADA investigations after Russia hosted the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. “This entire fiasco created by Russia has cheated far too many athletes of their dreams and rightful careers, for far too long,” the WADA athlete panel said in a statement ahead of the meeting. That must be filed by the Russian anti-doping agency, known as RUSADA. That body was declared non-compliant on Monday, 15 months after it was reinstated by WADA in defiance of athlete opposition. The decision to appeal has been stripped from RUSADA chief executive Yuri Ganus, an independent figure criticizing Russian authorities’ conduct on the doping data issue. Authority was passed to the agency’s supervisory board after an intervention led by the Russian Olympic Committee. The ROC on Saturday labeled the expected sanctions as “illogical and inappropriate.” Russia has stuck to its claim that deceptive edits in the data were in fact made by WADA’s star witness, Grigory Rodchenkov. The former Moscow lab director’s flight into the witness protection program in the United States was the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary. Technical reasons were claimed — and debunked by WADA investigators — for why the data appeared to have been edited shortly before the delayed handover in January. https://www.tsn.ca/world-anti-doping-agency-imposes-4-year-ban-on-russia-1.1410338 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickenspear Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 You're right. This is effectively the exact same We'll see OAR as country of origin again. Olympic Athletes from Russia Until they actually full on ban Russians from the games and international sporting period it will never change 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HerrDrFunk Posted December 9, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 9, 2019 Sounds like they're continuing the good work of Dick Pound. Yes, I just wanted an excuse to type his name. 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naslund.is.king Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 I'm just waiting for Trump and his cronies to claim that it was actually the Ukrainians who were using the drugs.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldoescobar Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 Time to start a new olympics where everything goes imo.. Drugs, booze , whatever you like as long as the ppl are entertained. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timont Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 They say thet even Russians agree that this decision is a just one and that the whole system is corrupted to the roots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timont Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 (edited) Though lots of them think that all countries have cheated about doping and Russia was banned mostly as political revenge from the USA. Edited December 13, 2019 by Timont Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 15 hours ago, Ronaldoescobar said: Time to start a new olympics where everything goes imo.. Drugs, booze , whatever you like as long as the ppl are entertained. And Vince McMahon can be the CEO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MystifyNCrucify Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 10 hours ago, Alflives said: And Vince McMahon can be the CEO. At least it would be semi entertaining, unlike now. I watched some of the winter Olympics. Probably more because i was unemployed, than because i was interested in people skating in circles, or riding a frozen waterslide. Even the hockey was meh. I couldnt imagine watching the summer olympics as it is. Lets allow body checking in the running events, make pole vaulters and high vaulters jump over a pit of piranhas, long jumpers get chased by a starving lion, and weapons in martial arts matches. PS this wont change anything. Even their curlers cant keep clean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancaster Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Hopefully the IOC and WADA will keep cracking down on every country. Russia is an easier target as it's an antagonistic country with minimal clout internationally. More investigation is required for many other "suspicious" countries (China, Cuba, etc.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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